Conversation started Oct 6, 2011 at 16:20.
Marco Ceppi
Marco Ceppi
Oct 6, 2011 16:20
Man @StefanoPalazzo trying to find a site design that I like for Ondina Hosting is hard.
I thought I liked that one I showed you a while back blog.ondina.co but now I'm just not sure.
Stefano Palazzo
Stefano Palazzo
I've got to take a look at the competition
most of them don't have this CMS look to them
interestingly, some of the big ones, like hosteurope.de don't look all that appealing
I'll be back in 20 minutes
Marco Ceppi
Marco Ceppi
Oct 6, 2011 16:38
k
If you're looking for "high up there webhosts" you've got hostgator.com inmotionhosting.com rackspace.com mediatemple.net site5.com
I'm not really a fan of any of these though
Stefano Palazzo
Stefano Palazzo
Oct 6, 2011 17:10
I like rackspace's page, really nice
okay, apart from the fixed header and the fly-in chat box. that's just silly :)
Stefano Palazzo
Stefano Palazzo
Oct 6, 2011 17:21
I think the difficult part is to make it look serious while preserving the simplicity. most serious hosting providers just cram their pages full of stuff
most of that stuff is meaningless to most of the visitors, so they just put everything on one page, in the hopes that a customer will spot the relevant bit. the way to solve this is to know your audiences and make big obvious buttons for each of them.
Marco Ceppi
Marco Ceppi
That gives me an idea for a site layout
I'll try to draw it on paper
Stefano Palazzo
Stefano Palazzo
great
Marco Ceppi
Marco Ceppi
Oct 6, 2011 17:38
Instead of focusing on what package we have, hone in on the audience instead.
I don't have a scanner here, so you'll have to bear with crappy ink drawing via phone
"Web Hosting for the modern human" or something stupid like that
user image
Stefano Palazzo
Stefano Palazzo
this is awesome
you seem to have these audiences down pretty well
Marco Ceppi
Marco Ceppi
there's a button on each image
which goes to a "learn more"
I imageing that page would be a simplistic FEATURES YOU WOULD PROBABLY LIKE
in an easy to digest form (anything but a table)
 
Conversation ended Oct 6, 2011 at 17:44.